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Gwyneth Williams: Controller of Radio 4
Roger Bolton
Controller of Radio 4, Gwyneth Williams, discusses her role within the BBC and answers audience complaints regarding the coverage of Baroness Thatcher's death.
The Telegraph's Gillian Reynolds in conversation with Radio 4's Gwyneth Williams
Paul Murphy
Senior Producer, A&Mi
Gillian Reynolds and Gwyn Williams at the Media Society organised event I mentioned in Monday's round up of what the critics were saying about Radio 4's schedule change that the Telegraph's radio reviewer Gillian Reynolds would be meeting Radio 4's controller at an event to talk about her ...
A new schedule, The Archers and cuts
Roger Bolton
Editor's note - Feedback is back. And highlights of the first episode of the new series are a wide-ranging interview with Controller Gwyneth Williams and an encounter with Archers editor Vanessa Whitburn for two of her listeners - SB. Hardly had Feedback gone off the air before Christmas then J...
Feedback's back
Roger Bolton
Since Feedback came off the air in late August, the BBC has rarely been out of the headlines. There was Radio 1's Chris Moyles complaining at considerable length that he hadn't been paid. Then the Chairman of the BBC Trust, who had old me in June that he wanted his contract extended, suddenly ch...
A year of anniversaries on Radio 4
David Hendy
So You and Yours is forty. Congratulations. The programme launched in October 1970 to give Radio 4 listeners advice five lunchtimes a week on 'everyday affairs from savings to sex, from holidays to health'. It swallowed-up older programmes such as Can I Help You, Listening Post, and You and Your...
My first week at Radio 4
Gwyneth Williams
"Unforgettable, that's what you are..." Mark Damazer's 'Inheritance Track' on last week's Saturday Live was characteristically charming and fluent, hinting at the warmth that makes him my friend as well as the highly successful Radio 4 controller that he has been for the last six years. He leave...
Damazer departs
Steve Bowbrick
Head of Interactive, Radio 3
Here it is. Mark Damazer's final interview as Radio 4 Controller. Twenty minutes of fascinating discussion with Broadcasting House presenter Paddy O'Connell, touching on pressure from politicians and civil servants, on opening up Thought for the Day to secular voices and on not cancelling Wom...
Radio 4 will be in terrific hands
Mark Damazer
I have known Gwyneth Williams for nearly 15 years - as a marvellous programme maker and editor and Head of Radio Current Affairs. She is full of flair - brimming with ideas of her own while encouraging others to bring their own best ideas to the table. She has an inherent elegance and a steely p...
A new Controller for Radio 4
Tim Davie
Director of Audio & Music
Over the past two months I've been searching for a new Controller for Radio 4 and Radio 7. This is no simple task; Radio 4 is a unique cultural institution with a passionate audience and incredibly talented staff. Leading it is a huge honour. As I wrote here at the start of the process, Mark Dam...
